Career
She joined the newly formed Liberal National Party of Queensland in 2008 when the Liberal Party and the Nationals merged in Queensland. Before the 2012 election, she was the Shadow Minister for Tourism, Small Business and Manufacturing. She was the Shadow Minister for Small Business, Job Creation, Fair Trading and Industrial Relations and the Shadow Minister for Women.
She has previously been the Shadow Minister for Public Works and Information and Communication Technology between 2010 and 2011.
Before defeating government minister Merri Rose at the 2004 state election, Stuckey ran a successful business. Jann Stuckey was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia.
In 1976, Stuckey became a registered nurse with a diploma from Adelaide Children"s Hospital. In 1987, Stuckey moved with her family to Currumbin on the Gold Coast in 1987.
Prior to her election in 2004, Stuckey ran a communications consultancy firm specialising in professional development, speaker coaching and conflict resolution.
Stuckey first ran for the state seat of Currumbin in 2001 for the Liberal Party of Australia, losing to incumbent Labor member Merri Rose. In 2004, Jann Stuckey ran for Currumbin again for the Liberal Party, succeeding in unseating Rose with a 17.7-point swing following a number of scandals surrounding Rose"s electorate office expenses and staff bullying accusations. Upon her election, Stuckey was appointed Liberal Party spokesperson for Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development, Child Safety, Communities and Disability Services, Employment, Training and Industrial Relations, and Women"s Issues.
After the National and Liberal Parties formed a coalition in September 2005, Stuckey was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development.
During the 2006 campaign, local high school teacher Michael Riordan challenged Stuckey as the Labor candidate for Currumbin. She was re-elected with 52% of the vote after preferences.
After the 2006 election, Stuckey returned to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Child Safety, Disability Services and Mental Health. At the 2009 election, she was returned again with a 5.9-point swing to the newly amalgamated Liberal National Party of Queensland and was appointed by new leader John-Paul Langbroek as Shadow Minister for Public Works and Information and communications technology . After Campbell Newman was elected leader of the Lecture Notes in Physics in 2011, she was appointed as Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business a position she took through until the 2012 election.
